January 14, 2014

Agrarian Trust in 2014

In April of 2013, Kendra Johnson, Severine Fleming, and Kristen Loria completed the guidebook “Affording our land: a farmers guide to farm finance options.” It has been at the head of our growing Resource List and is available for free to download. This guidebook is meant as a compilatory resource for farmers looking for land, as well as service providers who are supporting farmers and/or landowners in this shared goal.

Our goal for 2014 is to focus on the cultural conversation about land, continue gathering and documenting case studies and models, and research and preparing to build the mechanism for land transaction in 2015.

Other goals for our program:

1. Build the issue of Land Access through public programming, press outreach and messaging.

2. Support the network of practitioners as well as farmers looking for land.

Starting on March 29, 2014 Agrarian Trust will be convening 10 workshops. Organized regionally, these will generate “open source” curriculum modules for use by farmers and farm service providers for professional development. We will be sending notifications about all these workshops at a later date.